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How do we say mudskipper in Japanese

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Mudskippers in Japan

Japan is often said to have four species of mudskippers naturally shown below.

  1. Great blue spotted mudskipper (Boleophtalmus pectinirostris) IB/EN
  2. Shuttles hoppfish (Periophtalmus modestus) NT
  3. Silverlined mudskipper / Barred mudskipper (Periophtalmus argentilineatus)　
  4. Walking goby (Scartelaos histophorus) IA/CR

Mudskipper-like fishes in Japan

And, mudskipper like fishes out of water for three species.

  1. Apocryptodon punctatus (No english name) Oxudercinae, Gobiidae, Perciformes II/VU
  2. Leaping blenny (Alticus saliens) Blenniidae, Blenniiformes
  3. Japanese leaping blenny (Aliticus Orientalis) Blenniidae, Blenniiformes

Reference : “Fishes of the World 5th Edition (2016)” and “Fish Emerging from Water” Takita, Ishimatsu(2015)

Boleophtalmus pectinirostris

Great blue spotted mudskipper

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ムツゴロウ (Mu-tsu-go-ro-u)

In a Saga region local dialect, ムツ(Mu-tsu) means “Greasy” and ゴロウ means “Goby”.

Boleophtalmus pectinirostris 3D Models

Periophtalmus modestus

Shuttles mudskipper / Shuttles hoppfish

Small left one is P. Modestus. Right big one is Boleophtalmus pectinirostris.

トビハゼ (To-bi-ha-ze)

トビハゼ means “Hopping Goby”.トビ(To-bi) means “Hop” and ハゼ(Ha-ze) means goby in Japanese.

Periophtalmus argentilineatus

Barred mudskipper/silverlined mudskipper

ミナミトビハゼ (Mi-na-mi To-bi-ha-ze)

ミナミ(Mi-na-mi) means “South-region” and トビハゼ is same as shown above in P.Modestus.

Scartelaos histophorus

Walking goby

トカゲハゼ(To-ka-ge Ha-ze)

トカゲ means “Lizard” and ハゼ(Ha-ze) means “goby” in Japanese.

How to say “mudskipper” in Japanese ?

Actually it’s a tough question. Mudskipper is a collective term, but Japanese has not obvious collective term for mudskippers. Most suitable Japanese term for mudskippers is とびはぜ (To-bi-ha-ze) , but this “とびはぜ(Tobihaze)” often means in a narrow sense, refers to P. modestus.

Five species of mudskippers can be found in Japan, but these five types of mudskippers are referred to by their own individual names and , not as a collective term.

References

Popular mudskippers English - Japanese -Scientific name Reference

Mudskippers Multi Langage - Scientific name Reference

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